More swimming

The review of this article is totaly not at all biaed.

This article about a recent conference championship meet was a well-written article. I liked how the writer did not focus on Pomperaug too much, not only because they are loud and obnoxious, but because if you even know nothing about SWC swimming, you know that Pomperaug was going to destroy eveyone anyways. But the writer got some quotes from other top-finishing teams too, rather than just focusing on the champion. I liked also how the writer makes an effort to mention individual performances based on their times they swam that night compared to their personal best times, as that is a HUGE aspect of swimming. Clearly this writer understands competitive swimming and as a result wrote an impressive.

And I'm not just saying this because I was mentioned. Really.

A-roid

Listening to the video, I have a few reactions:

He never says the same thing once. With every question Alex makes a lengthy speech, always answering the question with some form of 'I was stupid' or 'I'm sorry,' and only half answers the question. But that's all he ever tells us. No other details, no nothing. Just that he took the PED's and that he was sorry. How could he not know exactly what he's taking? That simply doesn't make sense to me.

I dunno what to really believe.

The Micheal Phleps reaction

So we all know about our nation's world class swimmer weed incident.

I think it's about time. I look up to him as a swimmer but as a person I think the people and the sponsors gave him too much leeway and forgiveness. Yes, it's good that he came clean right away. Not many other athletes would own up to the picture and would just say it was photoshopped. In message boards, a lot of people thinks he should have done that, among many other excuses.

The bottom line is that he did it and that he has to do something so that he doesn't do it again. I don't mean paying fines. Someone in Phelps' status could pay fines all day. I'm thinking some kind of comunity service or anti-drug commercial. But even if it means jail time, Phelps has to do something to at least try and get his reputation back up.